While Gov. John Kasich stressed in his State of the State speech last week the need to match workforce training to Ohio's available jobs, three Republican senators are already working on a plan to get students, particularly from urban and suburban areas, motivated to join the state's largest industry ..... Read More

One in seven Ohio jobs are in the agricultural bioscience field, but the number of students and teachers in agricultural education has fallen by 5 percent recently, according to state Sen. Chris Widener.....Read More

State Sen. Chris Widener (R-Springfield) said he wants to start a school called the Global Impact STEM Academy here. It would operate similar to the science, technology, engineering, and math schools like the Dayton Regional STEM School, but dedicated to agricultural bioscience.....Read More

Even Google is stumped. Search for 'agbioscience' and it answers "did you mean...?" My spellchecker red-lines it, and in conversation it elicits a look of acute confusion. Agbioscience. Add it to your vocabulary, because it can revive Ohio.....Read More